WASHINGTON, D.C. (WRN) — U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin helps reintroduce legislation to stop mislabeling non-dairy products.
The bipartisan “Dairy Pride Act” would prohibit what its authors call the unfair practice of labeling non-dairy products as milk, such as soy milk, oat milk, and almond milk.
Current Food and Drug Administration regulations define dairy products as being from animals. But the most recent FDA guidance on fluid dairy products allows plant-based alternatives to continue to use dairy terms despite not containing dairy.
Baldwin says for far too long, imitation dairy products made from plants and nuts have ridden the coattails of dairy farmers and gotten away with using dairy’s good name.